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https://policyoptions.irpp.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/ragan-img.png271718At its extremes, income inequality can appear staggering. In the United States where the issue has become a political flashpoint, Fortune 500 CEOs routinely make about 300 times the wages and benefits of their average workers. Ron Johnson, the former CEO of J.C. Penney, earned 1,795 times as such as the average employee of the […]